with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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MILL, MILL O.
The original, or at least a song evidently prior
to Ramsay'Sy is still extant.— It runs thus:
The mill J mill 0, and the kill, kill 0,
And the coggin d Peggy's wheel 0,
The sack and the sieve, and a* she did leave,
And danc'd the miller's reel 0.
As I cam down yon waterside.
And by yon shellin-hill O,
There I spied a bonie bonie lass.
And a lass that I lovM right weel O.—
Beneath a green shade I fand a fair maid
Was sleeping sound and still O,
A' lowing wi' love, ray fancy did rove,
Around her with good will-O :
* The remaining two stanzas, though pretty enough, partake
rather too much of the rude simplicity of the " Olden time" to
be admitted here.—£d.
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